Sherry_B
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That's not a Nexus phone so has nothing to do with Google - that is an issue with Samsung and whichever carrier the phone was sold on.
Google announced the Galaxy S4 as their new flagship phone at the Google I/O Keynote in 2013. The Galaxy S4's that we purchased are unlocked Google phones, purchased from the Play Store for $649.00 USD, and are not branded to any cell carrier. They run pure Android without Touchwiz. Google sent out the updates when the phones were new, not Samsung. Samsung only updated the S4's running Touchwiz, which were branded to carriers.
Not going to quote the rest of your post as you proved my point. Google only updates their current flagships, unlike Apple who supports all of their phone iterations until the update itself does not run on a specific device.